Re:China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over ...
by geon on Friday June 22, 2012 @10:36AM
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If you can run the hardware manufacturing off the books, I don't see how access to the driver source code would help. You would just ship the official binaries.
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Re:China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over ...
by joezydeco on Friday June 22, 2012 @11:07AM
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The point was that you don't need to know anything about the driver or hardware to make clones. There are other ways.
Re:China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over ...
by dredmorbius on Friday June 22, 2012 @11:39AM
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Which continues to moot the relevant point: Nvidia are withholding necessary software specs which not only aren't useful in reengineering their hardware, but which fail to protect against fully independent attacks (ghost shift manufacture) which at least allow duplication of current physical product if not producing a superior hardware product.